Sherman directs that you see that this band is not allowed to escape either across Grand River or into the Grossetete country. Acknowledge receipt.

FREDERIC SPEED,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

PLAQUEMINE, January 30, 865.

(Received 5. 25 p. m.)

Captain FREDERIC SPEED,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Defenses:

Your dispatch received. My cavalry were sent to the vicinity of The Park on the 26th instant, and have been unsuccessful in making any captures as yet. I keep up a daily communication with them, and have sent General Cameron a full report of their operations since leaving this post.

RICHARD G. SHAW,

Major, Commanding Post.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Numbers 27.
Little Rock, Ark., January 30, 1865.

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3. The following regiments of the Fourth Brigade, Reserve Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi, are hereby relieved from duty in this department and will be reported without delay to the commanding officer of that brigade at New Orleans, La.: Thirty-fifth Regiment [Wisconsin] Infantry Volunteers, battalion Ninety-sixth Ohio Infantry Volunteers. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,

AND U. S. FORCES AT DEVALL'S BLUFF, ARK.,

January 30, 1865.

Captain J. L. PRICE,

Commanding Detachment of Ninth Kansas Cavalry:

It was the intention and perfectly practicable to picket along the bayou running between the upper and lower surrounding hill from White River to Cache River. The brigadier-general commanding desires you to establish the line as directed, the left resting on or near the White River and the right on or near the Cache River. The neighborhood is easily approached by land from this place, but it was thought best to land you a short distance up the River and save a march. Perhaps you have landed too far up. If so, you should try and work your way down so as to get into the district desired to guard. Try again to-morrow morning and report in the afternoon what success.

Respectfully, yours,

CHAS. E. HOWE,

Captain, Twelfth Michigan Infantry, and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General